2026-09-16 06:47 UTC
@mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza
* In the 60s-70s there was this term "computer error" to explain inexplicable human ones.
* In the 80s people got a personal computer and understood what they were and that they couldn't "err".
* Nowadays, we have computer systems that can be as wrong as glue on pizza, and RAM prices are so high that pretty soon no one would have a personal computer. Computers can be blamed again.
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@fluffy@plush.city 2026-09-16 17:10
@zvinj@tooot.im @mrencyclopedia@retro.pizza “On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” — Charles Babbage